My wife, Michelle, and I met over 20 years ago in Boston. We moved to Chapel Hill from the DC area in 2014 with our four kids and have been attending CHBC since 2018.

I'm an engineer by training, I currently work for a large IT services company as Operations Director for their Global Real Estate Organization.

I grew up in a Christian home and accepted Christ as a child. My understanding of Scripture and love for the Lord has grown through the years as I continually become more aware of both the depth of my sin and the vastness of God's mercy.

In addition to helping shepherd our church, I currently co-lead a Life Group. I hope to contribute to deepening Christ-centered community and outreach at CHBC.

Elizabeth and I have been married almost 20 years. We have three children: Ella, Ben and Pippa.

I grew up just outside of Philadelphia, which is where Elizabeth and I met, got married and had all three of our kids. In 2014, we moved to Chapel Hill when, in an answer to prayer, a job opportunity arose, allowing us to relocate to North Carolina and closer to Elizabeth’s family.

Professionally, I am a lawyer with a background in real estate and real property litigation. For the last 10+ years I have been working in-house in the title insurance industry where I am currently Senior Claims Counsel for Investors Title Insurance Company in Chapel Hill.

Growing up, faith was not really a part of my life. Outside of holidays (and even those seemed more cultural than “religious”), my upbringing was what I would consider a fairly normal, secular life. I continued with this trajectory until God broke into my life following my second year of law school. He did this primarily through two people – a co-worker who I shared an office with and Elizabeth, who I had just begun dating. These two people who I suddenly found myself spending most of my time with were Christians and caused me to think about things that I never really considered before. My co-worker gifted me a copy of "Mere Christianity" which I began to read, and I started to attend church with Elizabeth. Reading "Mere Christianity," I became convinced by Lewis’ logic of the existence of God. Attending church, I felt a peace I never felt before and instantly knew this was where I was meant to be. However, it wasn’t until reading and studying the book of John that I saw myself as a sinner in need of a Savior.

In November, 2003, I accepted Jesus and was baptized shortly thereafter. There are a lot of details to my story of coming to Christ and subsequent maturation of my faith that this space and medium can’t do justice to the work God has done, but I will gladly share with anyone who desires to know more.

Since coming to Christ, I have been blessed to have been a member of churches where I have been discipled, mentored and shepherded well. At CHBC, I have had the privilege of serving our church body in similar ways, leading a life group as well as other small groups, including several small groups.

My hope is to help equip our church by continuing to shepherd well, investing in people, and establishing a strong community of faith within the CHBC body from which we can all pivot to our surrounding spheres for God’s glory.

I’m in Chapel Hill because, over 10 years ago, a nosy aunt set me up with her niece. Mary and I have loved being a part of CHBC in various capacities.

Mary is a chemistry professor at Elon University, a deacon, and loves a dance floor at a wedding.

I have led at Bible Church previously as the College Minister and the Founder and Director of Triangle Fellows. Presently, I work with an organizational arm of the Duke Divinity School that focuses on how churches and cities thrive.

I went to a Christian school as a kindergartener and was introduced to and accepted Christ that year. My faith grew and I really took ownership of it in 8th grade, when I was confronted with the reality not only that God wanted a relationship with me, but that I NEEDED one with Him. Along the way, God has provided great mentors, examples, churches, and community that have all helped me progress in my discipleship of Jesus.

I hope to help shepherd CHBC individually and corporately, utilizing my affections for pastoring, teaching, strategy, innovation, and community-building.

I have been married to Ping Shen whom I met in our hometown back in China. Ping and I have two teenage boys, Teddy and Ethan.

I’ve been working at SAS, a software company headquartered in Cary, for the past 20 plus years. My work mostly involves designing and implementing business software, and sometimes interacting with our software users.

With my atheist upbringing, it wasn't until later in my adulthood when I came to know Christ our Lord. My journey with Jesus began when I came to the United States to pursue my other earthly dreams in the graduate school. I can always vividly remember the first time when I attended an on-campus Bible Study Fellowship. It was His Word that drew me to Him. The Lord has used various circumstances to guide me in my relationship with Him ever since.

I feel so blessed to be called to serve as an elder. I've served or been serving in several roles at Chapel Hill Bible Church as a deacon, as Leader of Chinese Fellowship, and in other volunteering capacities.

As Christians, we’re called to spread the Good News to all people. I hope to use my experience and conviction to bring people from various ethnic/cultural backgrounds to worship Him as pictured in the beautiful scene of Revelation 7:9-12.

Charlie & I have been married for over 40 years. In 2006, my job transferred us to NC and we were introduced to CHBC by a friend and attended while here house-hunting; we became members that same year. Prior to retirement in 2012, I worked as a medical science liaison for Eli Lilly. I am a nurse and health educator by training, and although retired, my passion is for serving people with differing abilities (spiritual, physical, mental, cognitive, sensory, and social). We have a son, a daughter and 5 amazing grandchildren who live in Ohio & New Jersey.

As a child and teen, I attended a small denominational church where the Word was not taught and the Bible was seen as “part poetry, part history, and part fiction.” I never knew Jesus as anything more than a historical figure. One day a patient of mine asked me, “Do you know Jesus?” That started a quest for the truth. We started listening to Moody Radio and learned from some of the best teachers as we sought and found a Bible-believing church. We both gave our lives to Jesus as adults. Thanks be to God, to a kindly patient, Moody Radio, and some wonderful bible-believing churches in the 4 states we subsequently lived in as we followed my career across the country.

My desire is to serve humbly and with integrity in any capacity for which I am both needed and equipped. I am passionate about seeing our church grow in maturity, outreach, fellowship, and godly repute and that we continue to be lead by godly pastors who are faithful and devoted to God’s word.